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Start of my second grow! Had to take last year off after the first grow, but I'm back. Going with all Mephisto girls this time around.
Going with Bio Tabs starter kit this time around, and prepared soil according to FastBuds article on Bio Tabs. Top half BioBizz Light-mix soil, and bottom is Biobizz All-mix. Planning to not add the Bio Tabs tablets until week 3-4.
I am using 2 gallon / 9 liter pots. They are about 15-20% large than my last run.
Prepared the soil and added MYCORTEX at 5grams per 1l of soil. The soil was soaked 20 hours before planting the seed with 1g of Bactrex + 5ml of Orgatrex per liter of water, 2.5 liters in each pot.
Seeds were soaked for about 14 hours in purified water. All the seeds sank at the end of 14 hours, then they were planted directly into the soil at about 1cm deep on 22nd of January.
26/Jan - The seedling is above ground! Week 1 begins here
28/Jan - day 3 - Nothing to report on
30/Jan - day 5 - Nothing to report on, everything going fine so far.
01/Feb - day 7 - Nothing to report on, everything going fine so far.
This week hasn't been good. Cold Temperatures outside meant it's not gotten above 15 celcius in the tent... can clearly see how slow they are growing as a result, and drinking very slowly.
05/Feb - Gave 2L water with 1ml/L of Biosys Ecothrive
Temperatures are still low, so she is slow. Nothing really happening this week.
13/Feb - Fed 1.5L with 0.25ml/L BioBizz Calmag and 0.25ml/L Biobizz Bio-Heaven
She is very small and stocky... but looks ok so far, even though temperatures have been horrible.
19/Feb - Day 24 - Watered 1.5L with 0.25ML and 0.50ML Bio-Heaven. Thinking of putting in the Biotab into soil this week.
Also debating if I want to LST or just leave them be this time around.
23/Feb - Day 28 - Going slow... low temps have stunted the girls for sure, and I'm suspecting some nutrients are not being delivered to the best abilities either due to it being organic.
25/Feb - Day 30 - Put in the Biotab tablet today and watered 1.5L.
This girl is so small... she just doesn't want to stretch. I really hope she does stretch a bit when flowering kicks in.
03/March - Watered 1L with 0.5ml/L Biobizz Calmag. Very light LST and defoliation.
05/March - Day 38 - Watered 1.2L. No nutes, just PHed to 6.6. Minor Defoliation.
I wasn't expecting these to go so long without flowering. Lower temps and high humidity really messed up this grow, but I'm gonna keep going and see where we land.
19/March - Day 51 - 1.2L water.
21/March - Day 53 - 1.2L water with 0.5ml/l Top-max, 0.5ml/l Cal-mag and 0.1ml/l bloomtastic. Seeing some pre-flowers finally.
23/March - Day 55 - 1L water with 0.5ml/l Top-max, 0.5ml/l Cal-mag at 6.5ph.
She is starting to stretch and I'm seeing some preflowers. It also still has really nice dark green leaves, probably my best looking plant at this stage of the life cycle thus far.
25/March - Day 57 - 1.2L water with 3ml/l Orgatrex and 1g/l Bactrex
27/March - Day 59 - 1.2L water with 0.5ml/l Bio-heaven, 1ml/l Top-max, 0.5ml calmag and 0.3ml/l Bloombastic
29/March - Day 61 - 1.3L water with 1ml/l Orgatrex at 6.5ph. Did a decent bit of defoliation to open up the lower buds to light and air, probably last time I'll do it before harvest now unless leaves are dying.
This one absolutely exploded in height over the last week, so much so that she went from the shortest to the tallest plant in the tent.
Just like her sisters, I believe the late flowering and the fact that I only added 1 Biotab on week 4, meant that it is more than likely already dissolved as I'm seeing multiple deficiencies.
01/April - Day 64 - Crushed a quarter of a Biotab and sprinkled it on top of the soil before the watering. I also divided one biotab into quarters and put that quarter into the soil for some slow release as well. I may have to do one more top soil topping in a few weeks... we shall see.... I also added 1ml/L Calmag and 1gram/L Ecotrhive Biosys
Also measured run-off PH, which is at 6.5. Lovely.
04/April - Day 67 - Gave 1.5L water with 1ml/l Top-Max, 1ml/l Bio-Heaven, 0.5ml/l Calmag and 0.3ml/l Bloombastic. 6.3PH run-off.
07/April - Day 70 - 1.3L water with 2ml/l Orgatrex and 0.5ml/l Calmag at 6.9ph.
10/April - Day 73 - 1.5L water with 0.5ml/l Calmag, 1ml/l Bio-Heaven, 1.5ml/l Top-Max and 0.5ml/l Bloombastic. Did some defoliation to open up the bud sites to light and remove some of the damaged leaves.
24/April - Day 87 - Been away for over a week on Holidays, during this time a friend gave them just water and they look just fine.
25/April - Day 88 - Gave them a heavy feed, possibly last one before harvest. 1.7L with 3ml/l Top-Max, 1ml/l Bio-Heaven, 1ml/l Bloombastic, 0.5ml/l Calmag and 2ml/l Orgatrex.
28/April - Day 91 - 1.2L with some microbes, 0.5ml/l Bloombastic, 2ml/l Top-max, 1ml/l Bio-heaven
30/April - Day 93 - 1.5L with 1ml/l Orgatrex, 0.3ml/l bloombastic
3/May- Day 96 - 1.5L with 3ml/l Top-max, 0.5ml/l Bio-heaven, and 0.3ml/l bloombastic
I think the end is in sight, at least for the top colas. I am debating a partial harvest as I certainly struggled with space this grow, which means the lower bud sites are not as developed yet.
6/May - Day 99 - 1.5L water with 2ml/l top-max. Defoliated a bit more and did some extra LST to open up the bud sites to more light.
8/May - Day 101 - 1L water with 0.5ml/l Bloombastic and 1ml/l top-max.
10/May - Day 103 - 1.2L water with 4ml/l top-max, 1ml/l bio-heaven and 0.2ml/l bloombastic.
13/May - Day 106 - 1.7L with 0.5 Bloombastic.
16/May - Day 109 - 2L water. No nutes, at 6.5PH. Starting the flush, and also have a usb-c microscope coming in a day or two cause using a loupe is a pain in the ass . Planning on chopping Friday/Weekend.
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